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Inception The Movie: Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Crime
Topics: Popular Media | Add A CommentBy admin | January 17, 2010
The trailers for Christopher Nolan’s new movie Inception are out, as is an online game. Plot details are still thin, but with the director of Memento and Dark Night at the helm, who’s worried?
I almost never get wet-my-pants excited about upcoming film releases, especially anticipated blockbusters, but I’m making an exception in the case of Inception, the new film directed by Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight). Aside from the trailers (see below), the only details about Inception so far consist of the tagline “Your mind is the scene of the crime“, the pitch “In a world where entering dreams is possible, a single idea from the human mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset“, and some random thoughts about the film from Chris Nolan in this LA Times piece. Anything else right now is pure conjecture (which they’ve done a lot of over at Screen Rant ), except for the alleged scoop on the plot at (WARNING: Spoilers, assuming they’re right) InContention.com. Personally, I don’t care about all this speculation, anybody who can make a film like Memento and then later actually make me LOVE a Batman movie has my unqualified trust. Inception is slated for a July 2010 release, and the early virals are in motion; the Inception movie site has a link to a game at Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Crime. We have a mini-preview of the game with screen grabs for your amusement below, but only played as far as the first level, so who knows where the game leads? Try it and let us know. For now, we’ll wait and watch for more marketing teasers. Trailer and game details below.
The Inception Trailer
A different trailer is available on Apple.com.
The Inception trailer gives a Matrix-meets-Minority-Report-meets-Dark-City impression, which is probably partly because of the wall-walking guys in suits fighting:
Combined with the dark and dramatic cityscape imagery:
And moody shots of Leonardo DiCaprio:
The “Your Mind Is The Scene Of The Crime” Game
The only thing clickable the first time you view the site is the image of the top:
When you click on it, you’re presented with some graph paper:
You draw a path on the graph paper, but don’t try a straight line:
It’ll tell you that your maze can’t be that simple:
Once it’s happy with your maze, it sprouts into a vertical view of a city:
And you become a tiny little guy trying to escape other tiny little guys:
Either you get caught:
Or you make it:
And then? Who knows….